BEFORE THE COUNTDOWN

I stood inside the elevator, with no rather prevalent emotion being noticed over the others I already had (feeling a sense of premature accomplishment would have been understandable for a situation like this but there was nothing) and pressed the button for the ground floor first, because you needed to be in the ground floor before you could follow the security procedures that lets you access the sub level floor.

The elevator began to descend from one floor to the next with the lights above the door flicking on and off  with each level reached and with having only three floors before I reached the my first stop in the journey, I wouldn't be doing that much standing and waiting. As I got to the ground floor it stopped, well paused being the operative for me because that wasn't my final destination.

I stood close to the door, staring slightly to the right and under all the designated floor buttons was a gold coloured protruding rectangle shape with the emblem of wings on it. The protrusion was conspicuous and blended with the rest of the panel which was also gold in colour with matching colored buttons as well but with a luminating blue coloured ring surrounding each one. Unless you knew what the protrusion actually was or were just stupidly curious about elevator panels, you wouldn't notice anything different about it.

*STRETCH*

I on the other hand knew exactly what it was, so I extended my hand forward and raised the protrusion from the bottom, exposing a black button underneath which was the button for the sub floor. 

There wasn't any need for me to hesitate in pressing this button, however, before I could press it I heard a soft and soothing voice which stopped me on my tracks as I was filled with shock and an explosive sense of guilt.

{What are you doing Amanda?} said a very familiar voice.

'That voice! Where have I heard it before?' I tried to remember where I heard this particular voice from before I flashed back to earlier this morning.

"Shit! I totally forgot about her" I trembled internally "What do I say?"I mumbled.

The reason why I completely forgot about the existence of Divia up until now when she spoke to me was because, during my time and even up to the present, before I jumped back and unfortunately got placed inside Amanda as my host, there was never a time where I heard of such an existence like a Divia being used by the GHA before. I don't know if the system was scrapped sometime after now or whatever the case was but there was never such an existence like her to me. So, being something I wasn't familiar with, all the surprises and distractions I had been facing made my mind to forget all about her.

{Amanda? Can you not hear me?} she said in a very realistic and fluid voice, relatable to the likeness of a normal human's

*TSK*

I smacked my tongue in frustration before looking up at the roof of the elevator to where Divia's voice was coming from. By the speakers stationed there.

{Unauthorized personnels are not allowed to press that button} Her voice left the top of the elevator and started coming out from the gold panel, directly where the button was, so it felt like I had a finger pointing to her mouth.

"Huh!?" I was taken aback by the sudden change, but I didn't have time to reminisce on it because I had to take control of the situation, and quickly. "Umm! I was just... hmm..."

'Common, think of something Samuels' I thought and then decided to go with the most childlike answer I could come up with, which I agree made me to sound very restarted as I thought about it but hopefully the physical features of the host I was in (Amanda) would make what I said come off as realistic and understandable.

"I saw the shinny gold wings on the buttons and wanted to play with it before the button underneath showed up" I smiled nervously.

'How did she notice me anyway? I thought I took care of all the cameras including the elevator cameras' I thought.

{Is that right? Okay! But I have a second question for you, if you don't mind giving me an answer. How did you get into the elevator? I didn't see you leave Brian's office}

'She didn't see me leave Brian's office? Wait! Does that mean that she's seeing through all the cameras just like the monitors of the security room but unike the monitors her feed hasn't been altered?' I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion.

'No, I doubt that. She must also be receiving her camera feed wirelessly via the secondary data box, the same data box that is getting it's feed from old footage from the storage cell, therefore altered footage so that would mean—' I decided to stop thinking too much about everything.

"Hmm!" I cleared my throat "Divia? I'll answer the question you just asked but first I have one of my own"

{What question is that Amanda?}

"How did you know that I was in the elevator? Are you looking through the cameras?" I looked up to the cameras then looked back at the panel again awaiting her response, retracting my hand just to cross them on one another.

{There seems to be something wrong with the camera footage as from what I'm getting from them shows that you aren't currently in the elevator which makes no sense because it has been established that you are... I will have to check with the security division about that}

'I knew it, she doesn't see me, so how?' I folded my arms to think while bitting my thumbnail in the process

"Alright Divia, I think you should inform them to get the cameras fixed, but before you do that, if you aren't able to see me through the cameras then how did you know I was in here" I smiled to hide my real emotions.

{Body rhythm. I measured your body rhythm and that's how I was able to identify you} she explained and I was left bewildered by the term she used.